Lawyers representing a Russian tech executive who are suing BuzzFeed for publishing the infamous Trump-Russia dossier claim that Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain’s associate, and several other media outlets aren’t complying with subpoenas for additional information.

Lawyers for Russian executive Aleksej Gubarev filed a brief Wednesday in federal court, claiming that David Kramer, McCain’s associate, “has been seemingly avoiding service” of a deposition subpoena for several weeks.

Wednesday’s brief indicated that Gubarev’s attorneys subpoenaed CNN, the New Yorker, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Yahoo News for depositions in an attempt to reveal who leaked the dossier to BuzzFeed, according to The Daily Caller.

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The dossier, which was partly funded by former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee, consisted of unverified anti-Trump research.

Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid nearly $9 million for the discredited dossier, according to the New York Post.

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Fusion GPS reportedly paid former British spy Christopher Steele to compile the dossier.

The Washington Free Beacon initially paid the firm for conducting the research on several Republican candidates during the 2016 presidential election between the fall of 2015 and the spring of 2016, according to Fox News.

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After The Free Beacon dropped the firm, Fusion GPS was hired by attorney Marc Elias, who represented the Clinton campaign and DNC.

Gubarev’s lawyers are trying to uncover who leaked the dossier to BuzzFeed, which the website published on Jan. 10, 2017.

The dossier claims that Gubarev and two of his companies, XBT Holdings and Webzilla, infiltrated the DNC’s computer systems by using porn bots, spam, and viruses.

Gubarev has denied those allegations.

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The Federalist reported that Gubarev’s attorneys argued that publishing the dossier, which was subject to heavy criticism, shows the website’s “reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the information published.”

The dossier published by BuzzFeed contains a total of 17 memos and 35 pages of documents dated from June 20, 2016 to Dec. 13, 2016.